The phrase "we the people" as it relates to the constitution was meant to signal a large-scale inclusiveness of the voting population--meaning that the Founding Fathers wanted to ensure that all eligible (mainly male, white) citizens could have an equal say in government, so that tyranny did not form.
<span><u>written constitution = </u><u>after unification</u>
<em /><em>During revolutions in 1848-1849, the Frankfurt Parliament had produced a constitution for a unified Germany, but that move was rejected at the time by the king of Prussia, to whom the constitution was offered. </em>
<u>300 German states = </u><u>before unification</u>
<em>The German states had a long history of sovereignty in their individual territories. <u>Unification</u> meant bringing all those states together into one national entity.
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<u>trade facilitated in the region = </u><u>before unification</u>
<em>The Zollverein, or customs union, was created between the German states in the 1830s. This eliminated customs tariffs between states and was a step that began moving in the direction of unification.
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<u>risk of French aggression = </u><u>before unification</u>
<em>Germany became a united empire after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. Victory over France in that war by the German states operating as a coalition was part of what brought about unification.
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<u>boundaries changed by Napoleon = </u><u>before unification</u>
<em>When Napoleon conquered territories throughout Europe in the early 1800s, he rearranged borders to enhance his empire's management of conquered territories. In the German states, this made them work together in ways they had not before, and was a catalyst toward desires for unification.
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<u>two-house legislature = </u><u>after unification</u>
<em /><em>There was a legislature in the North German Confederation (1867-1870), which preceded unification. But that was a single-house (unicameral) parliament, whereas the Reichstag (legislature) of the unified German Empire was bicameral.</em>
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Africa is the continent that has the Spanish-speaking country with the smallest population and the country is "<span>Equatorial Guinea".
Officially known as the "Republic of </span><span>Equatorial Guinea", is a country situated in Central Africa. This is the only African country with "Spanish" as its official language.</span>
Davy Crockett....... David Crockett was a 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Texas Revolution.
<span>There were hundreds of generals commissioned in the American Civil War on both the Union and Confederate armies. Some, like Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysess S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman are household names.</span><span>
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